The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-07
Weekly News Summary.


CREAMERIEs are being established in all
parts of the state by Boston parties.
BEN MosHIER of st. Adams Bay made
about 1000 barrels of cider this season.
FAIR HAVEN produces about $50 900 square
feet of slate a month from the different
quarries.
MILTON has had four days musical con-
convention under the direction of l.. o.
Emerson.
THERE have been several cases of malig
nant diphtheria in Isle La Motto, but all are
improving.
DoMINIoK CoRcoRAN of Rutland lost three
members of his family within week from
diphtheria.
CHARLES INGALLS, house and barn at Dan
vile were burned last week. Loss $1,000;
partly insured.
THE annual meeting of the Vermont
Teachers Association will be held at Bran
don January 18th, 9th and 2Sth.
A. n. LEE of Bellows Falls scratched his
hand with piece of wire. Blood poison
set in and his condition is critical.
DEPUTY SHERIFF STEARNs' stable in Rut-
land was burned recently, and the house
was also Quilted. Insurance $1,000.
a CHANGE has taken place in the st.
Adams SontrV office, Mr.. Jamson retiring
and III. p. Dee going in as manager.
THE Vermont Farm Machine Company
of Bellows Falls has sent the Soldiers
Home AT Bennington a check for $50.
The Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
are reported to be five hundred carloads
behind on coal orders in Rutland alone.
AT West Brattleboro Timothy Adkins,
aged ninety-four, fell down stairs and broke
his arm 1t is feared the shock may prove
fatal
The Bardwell House stable at Rutland,
owned by Garreton & Page, was destroyed
by fire Saturday evening. One horse per-
ished.
The Bellows Falls Library Association
has voted to give all funds on hand to the
town of Rockingham in order to establish
library.
THE store of Thomas II. Hall of Pownal,
in which is kept the post-ofllce, was broken
into recently and over 500 worth of goods
were taken.
The steamer -" Maquam " made her last
trip for the season November Goth, and will
lay at Maquam Bay for the winter. The
season has been very successful.
A son of E. G. Bacon of Sunderland, aged
about five years, had his foot cut nearly off
by another boy, named Cook, of the same
age. They were both attempting to split
wood.
THE Bacon homestead in Sunderland, and
barns adjoining, were burned Monday.
Loss $1,000; partially insured. William
Bacon, residing therein, persisted in the
flames.
THOMAS JEFFERSON CURRIER, a we'll
known mill-owner and lumber-dealer of
White River Junction, died of pneumonia
Monday. He was born in Enfield, n. H.,
in 1901
w. F. LEWIS declines the captaincy of the
Kingsley Guard of Rutland, to which he
was recently elected and it is thought that
Lieutenant Mcclure will be elected to the
vacancy.
THE managers of the Rutland Missionary
Association expect to provide before long
home for aged women and a temporary
refuge for women sick or out of employment
and without home.
IT is announced that l.. p. Thayer of the
West Randolph Herald and f. n. Whitney
of the Northfeld Ne,cS have purchased the
Burlington Clipper and will take possession
in a week or ten days.
RODNEY WHITTEMoRE's horse ran away
in st. Adams, smashed a large plate-glass
window in Lanes bookstore and seriously
injured three young girls The horse broke
his neck and fell dead.
FIRE in NJ. j. Caldbecks shop at Paddock
Village (St. Johnsbury) recently caused
loss of $4,000 insurance $4,000 Mr.. Cald-
beck used the shop for the manufacture of
doors, sash, blinds, etc.
JOHN STACY, fourteen-year-old lad. fell
through the ice while attempting to skate
at Rutland Friday. He was caught and
saved by companion the third time that
he put his head above the water.
THE Peoples Trust Company of St.
Adams, which has been doing business ten
months, has at present three hundred
seventy-four open accounts and balance
of deposits amounting to $130,S7336.
THE estate of the late Colonel A. B. jew
ett formerly superintendent of the st.
Johnsbury Lake Champlain railroad, has
mot al lAl ln hntrn sft l.a
deceased, involving the distribution of some
S150,000
CLINTON TOBIAS, son of II. Tobias of
Grand Isle, recently found a large copper
coat button, plowed up by his father, and
on which were the letters =" G.. W." in the
center, and around the edge Long Live
the President"
ORA RHoADEs of South Londonderry
counted his money, S31 80, before an un-
curtained window at night and then went
to bed Somebody outside who saw the OPP
Grafton took the hint and also the money
while Rhoades was asleep.
WHILE the pupils of the Pomeroy school,
Burlington, were at play in the yard during
a recess Eddie Blair, aged eleven years,
and son of John B. Blair. suddenly fell to
the ground face downward, and in few
moments was dead from heart disease.
ALICE WHITE of st. Johnsbury discovered
a tree blown across the track of the Lake
road, and warned the engineer of passing
freight in season to avert an accident, for
which Superintendent Stowell sent her
check far SO, certain pass privileges and
profuse thanks.
c. S. PAGE, inspector of finance, was in
town Tuesday, to see how correctly the
savings bank had followed directions given
at the time of his annual examination. Mr..
Page fully comprehends the duties of his
position and is a most vigilant and most
faithful public oficer.-Lyndon Union.
The Hampton Falls Marble Company has
been consolidated with the Waldo Marble
Company of Fair Haven, and as a result the
capital stock of the latter company has been
raised to S500,0O0, making that company the
third largest in Vermont, the Vermont
Marble Company being first and Sheldon
& Sons second.
REPRESENTATIVE from the national
banks of Brandon, Vergennes Middlebury
and the three banks of ST. Johnsbury met
G.. w. Hendee, the receiver of the national
banks of St. Adams, and made a PROPOSE
ton for the settlement of the claims against
these banks in the Bradley Barlow case.
The decision has not yet been announced.
CHARLES WEIRs of West Barnet was run
over and killed by the cars last summer
while intoxicated, leaving a wife and aged
mother 1t appears that he did not pur-
chase the liquor in town, but sent off for it
and had it delivered by express. His mother
and widow have now sued the American
Express Company, claiming 5000 damages.
IT is planned to form new town ont of
parts of Newport and Derby The Newport
Express says: " Geographically they belong
together as each is at the extreme edge of